"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

Desire, Longing, Prayer, Will

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"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Desire, Mind, Direction, Choice

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Faults, Mind, Sincerity

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Desire, Control, Love, Power

"I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?""Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression."I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that.""Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly.He gave a husky laugh. "True."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Desire, Mind, Lust, Love

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Hunger, Longing, Emotion

"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

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"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Desire, Fulfillment, Life, Human

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Desire, Comfort, Guest, Master

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God."

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"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."

Music

"It is indeed a song of steps. And as I have often said to you, these steps are not made to descend but to ascend. The questioner wishes then to ascend; and where does he wish to ascend if not to heaven? What does this mean-to ascend to heaven? Does he wish to ascend so as to be in the heavens with the sun, the moon, and the stars? Far from that! But there is in heaven an eternal Jerusalem where the angels, our co-citizens, are. From these co-citizens we on earth are estranged. In this exile we sigh; in the city we shall have joy."

Spiritual

"When spirits fall, their darkness is revealed, for they are stripped of the garment of your light. By the misery and restlessness which they then suffer you make clear to us how noble a being is your rational creation, for nothing less than yourself suffices to give it rest and happiness. This means that it cannot find them in itself. For you, O God, will shine on the darkness about us. From you proceeds our garment of light, and our dusk shall be noonday."

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"The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves to be deceived through an unseasonable and misguided love of reason."

Philosophy

"For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy."

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"You are moving on the chariot of your desire whatever you are thinking is always right."

"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

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"For in our hope we are saved."

"Lavish spending cloaks the dark side of generosity."

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

"A community is nothing else than a harmonious collection of individuals."

"There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God."

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."

"The reader of these reflections of mine on the Trinity should bear in mind that my pen is on the watch against the sophistries of those who scorn the starting-point of faith, and allow themselves to be deceived through an unseasonable and misguided love of reason."

"For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy."